What can you tell me about my A2 Steel Heart?

[leatherman]

I may be a bit high, but your additional pics confirmed my suspicions about the beakless Bird's Beak (BB) profile. I've never seen one like it. Very




∞ ducci?

Your right on the button there bro, I've never seen one like that either! The coating is intact at that area on the pommel so its a factory job, very cool piece indeed.

I do hear a distant rumbling coming from up north, I think Randucci's SHSH senses are going off the chart.

 

[JurT]

THAT's an awesome SH!

 

[wetdog1911]

I may be a bit high, but your additional pics confirmed my suspicions about the beakless Bird's Beak (BB) profile. I've never seen one like it. Very




∞ ducci?

I've also never seen anything CLOSE to that!

Even a few years ago when SHSH's were popping up all over the place to finance ERGOS.

That's a rarey for sure.

Rob

 

[Webscrounger]

Looks like a One-of piece. Very desirable. I think I'd get another user because I'd hate to rough that one up.

 

[cypselus]

Looks like a One-of piece. Very desirable. I think I'd get another user because I'd hate to rough that one up.

I think I've decided that I need to find a beater Steel Heart. This one has been handled, and the edge touched up on a ceramic rod - other than that it's never done anything rougher than shave off a patch of arm hair. I'm going to take very good care of it from now on so it doesn't get any more handling marks.

I bought it based on their old ad in Soldier of Fortune. Remember the one with the skeleton clutching his Steel Heart?

 

[Webscrounger]

You must mean the ad displayed in this post....

http://bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=397476&page=2&highlight=magazine

 

[randucci]

Great knife you got there, it does look like it started out as a BBSHSH and like stated above, I would have thought someone would have ground off the end if it weren't for the factory paint. Good thing you kept it all this time!

 

[cypselus]

Any idea why the factory would have sent it out without the "head" (if that's the correct term?)?

 

[Jim G.]

Probably either 2 much or not enough Blue label while it was being ground.

 

[wetdog1911]

Any idea why the factory would have sent it out without the "head" (if that's the correct term?)?

Who knows?

The fact is, to a collector, you could probably get an INFI SHSH (for a user), + cash your way so they could stick that sucker in a safe.

I don't collect anymore, but they are really fun to use.

Or, use what ya got. It might drop the price by $50 or $75, but you could still have fun, and I don't mean less than the purchase price, but what someone is willing to pay now.

Just about all my users are straight handles.

A POX on locking them up in a safe!

Rob